Essays about: "flâneur"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word flâneur.

  1. 1. Pigeon Tales : An Exploration of Humanimal Entanglement in Urban Spaces

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Anna Hoekman; [2023]
    Keywords : Pigeons; humanimal relations; animal rights; posthumanism; companion species; historical ecology;

    Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of the humanimal entanglements between humans and pigeons in the urban setting. It traces human-pigeon histories from pigeons’ domestication forward to the contemporary conceptions of pigeons as a pest animal. READ MORE

  3. 2. Curating contemporary art, the city and the fl�neur : A walk through Bruges and its Triennial

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Agnès Biro; [2022]
    Keywords : Curating; curating context; phenomenology; architecture; contemporary art; psychogeography; the city; the flâneur; walking; emotions; atmosphere; encounter; urban space; public space; heritage; transformation; experiment; Bruges Triennial; La Dérive.;

    Abstract : Discovering the city of Bruges through the lens of its Triennial is the starting point to research the potential for contemporary art to influence one?s way of experiencing the city. Taking the case study of a still not so renowned large-scale event like the Bruges Triennial, this thesis investigates the background of this recurring event, how it started, the evolution of its curatorial process and its socio-political challenges being set, every three years, in the context of a Unesco-protected site. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Bee & the Crown : The Road to Ascension in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Stenskär Eva; [2021]
    Keywords : Key words: Sylvia Plath; Emily Dickinson; Outsiders; Threshold; Space; Ascension; Windows; Performativity; Violence; Divine; Walter Benjamin; Gaston Bachelard; Subha Mukheriji; Mircea Eliade; Suzanne Juhasz; Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar; Interiors; Pathology; Ecstasy; Fear;

    Abstract : Though born a century apart, American poets Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath share several similarities: Both were born in New England, both fought for their rights by writing, and both broke new poetic ground.          In this thesis, I look at their poetry through a movement in space, which begins with the poets’ precarious position as societal outliers and ends with ascension. READ MORE

  5. 4. Wrong Side of the Ridge: Charting the Urban Fabric of the Countryside

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Oscar Damerham; [2017]
    Keywords : countryside; flâneur; Planetary Urbanisation; extended urbanisation; methodological cityism; phenomenology; rural-futurism; villages;

    Abstract : Echoing through the lecture theatres, conference halls and pages of the contemporary Urban Studies discourse is the oft-repeated refrain that today over half the world?s population live in urban areas, and that by 2050 this proportion is expected to be upwards of 70%. The place of the leftover 50% of people inhabiting a vast and seemingly forgotten 98% of the planet?s rural territory is externalised, apparently lying outside the purview of marching urbanisation. READ MORE

  6. 5. Roaming the streets : A comparative study of the theme of the fl�neur in the novels Catcher in the Rye and Ghost World

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Karin Berg; [2016]
    Keywords : Bildungsroman; flaneur; Ghost World; Catcher in the Rye; Clowes; Salinger; graphic novel; adolescence;

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